well brock obama and mitt romney make their last dos in the final hours of the presidential race you know it's a debate with the alternative candidates who use forces have gone largely encouraged jim in the campaign. own problems caused by last three superstorm sandy ilija the widespread use of online voting but cyber security experts warn it could result in fourth which could swing such a tight race. and look at how the outcome of the lax and you could it affect the course of america's foreign affairs and its relations with the rest of the world.

you're watching our a lawyer from moscow with me to bomb and say good to have you with us on this election week. now after months of political rallying and billions of dollars spent on campaigns by the two main presidential candidates electioneering in the us has now entered its final stage before voters head to the polls late on tuesday all the focus is on the razor thin raise between barack obama and mitt romney however there are actually more voices to be heard in the faceoff of the white house with i'll turn a device to the principal rivals having been pushed off from the national debate but you provided the stage for them in our washington studio and our correspondent and she can is live with us gynae it's often been argued that although dragged to rivals obama and romney tend to thing from the same song sheet on many issues just

how different is a third party candidate its message. well we'll listen to a presidential candidates who know very well who know perfectly well that they don't stand a chance to win this election but they screw their hats in the ring because they claimed the two parties were public and democratic have conspired to leave americans with no choice or with an illusion of choice as they say joel stein from the green party and gary johnson from the libertarian party debated in our studio this monday night but it was not a debate simply against the two party system listening to how these alternative candidates argued on the economy you could see how dramatically opposite their views are on the on the subject it was a heated debate on the role of the government the libertarian candidate for instance was arguing that the u.s. should get rid of all taxes except the federal consumption tax the green party candidate argue the opposite of course but on foreign policy they demonstrated

a similar view both against military interventions by the united states both offering views distinctly alternative to those of mitt romney and barack obama take a listen. we deserve a foreign policy based on international law human rights and diplomacy unfortunately we currently have an international policy based on wars for oil and the use of brute military force as a tool of foreign policy we should do unto others as we would have others do unto us that should be the united states' influence influence the united states should have should be the beacon on the hill the notion that we've been a country that stood up to the bully as opposed to being a bully. both candidates criticized extensive use of drones by this administration arguing that they create more enemies for the

united states and we remember that mitt romney is very much on the same page with the obama administration on the use of drones to execute people overseas the candidates also criticize the use of surveillance drones in the united states that we're also talking about how they would revert to sweeping powers of the patriot act and in general about what they see as violations of civil liberties in the united states take a listen we've looked at the use of the f.b.i. and homeland security against the occupy movement and the coordination of militarized police forces to violate the civil rights and the civil liberties i would have vetoed the national defense authorization act which allows for you and i as u.s. citizens to be arrested and detained without being charged i think this is why we fought wars thirty thousand drones flying over the united states what are they flying over the united states for i think of what's growing in the backyard what are we doing in the backyard it's

a growing police state quite obviously. electoral system. it is quite it's actually quite difficult for an independent candidate to get on the ballot in the us something that i heard joel stein talk about campaign financing has become a huge issue here especially with this supreme court ruling which now allows corporations to funnel as much money as they want into political campaigns which makes it virtually impossible for someone without the backing of the big party machines to win an election because big money goes to the big parties the election campaigns of mitt romney and barack obama have cost around a billion dollars each non of those alternative candidates who were paid debating this monday night could possibly catch up with that kind of spending that we're as we basically see just to say this is an all leading media channels during the campaign the obama and romney alternative kind of those look to be well in some kind of media blackout don't they

well they seem to be the news cycle here in america is entirely focused on the two parties americans know very little if anything about alternative candidates when when parties jule styne was arrested protesting outside the place where president obama and mitt romney debated in mid october it went completely ignored by the media here both parties republican and democratic arguably fear that it's third party candidate could become a spoiler in the election for example in the year two thousand independent candidate ralph nader was seen as a spoiler who contributed to the victory of george w. bush so it seems the party solution is to black out alternative voices and to convince the american people that they have no other choice but barack obama and mitt romney and the mainstream media here are very much part of that blackout right corresponding guy and it's as you can from washington thank you very much. right antiwar activists and journalists don de bar believes the agenda of the third

parties is left out of the race because it doesn't benefit the lead to which controls the political process. the bulk of the american taxpayers' money goes not to further develop cultural or economic values for the benefit of the american taxpayers that fund it but rather to. pursue were advance the interests of a very small elite that control both the economy and the political sector that is a fact that is widely known at a gut level of assyria level but it's not a part of the general discussion and it is not anything that ever enters into the political discourse the parties that service this in the media of course are not going to allow that to be part of the discussion either and so issues do go to those the fundamental aspect of things such as the spending of that money on making

war the actual policy of making war the neglect of workers needs the persecution of workers and the assault on their rights over time as policy that's not part of the discussion because that would lead to a remedy to something that is benefiting the people that control the discourse even before it's begun voting on election day already faces disruption to the devastating storm that tolls through america's east coast and some measures introduced to avoid those breakdowns threaten the transparency of the process as up at night i reports from new york. for the first time in history americans are embracing election day in the shadow of a deadly super storm that left behind a trail of devastation and voting disruptions here in new york city sixty polling sites have been relocated due to the unprecedented damage caused by sandy just one

week ago city officials say military trucks will also be used as makeshift polling stations in areas still without electricity this is of course to ensure that citizens were all be able to cast their votes in their writing jersey millions are being allowed to cast their ballot by fax mail or online the last minute decision was made after a reported two hundred fifty polling sites in the garden state were damaged by last week's superstorm now as government officials along the east coast are scrambling to ensure that millions are not disenfranchised from the presidential election cyber security experts warn them online voting can't be verifiably secure and this could lead to a disaster in a close race such as the one between barack obama and mitt romney several computer scientists and cryptologists say weaknesses in u.s. cyber security leaves room for online votes to be intercepted changed or deleted

but even before sandy became the us political game changer of twenty twelve america's election system was still considered controversial archies honest. explains you elected me to tell you the truth honesty is the best policy maybe not in u.s. elections two words define why people hate america double standard on everything in this presidential election season these two words are back in full swing the basic definition of a double standard is a rule or principle unfairly applied in different ways to different people or groups let's find out if this is relevant to the us elections. system respecting every single vote is key in a democracy yet voter suppression is alive and well in the us given the way that citizens are kept away from the from the voting booth by rules that are meant to keep away a certain segment of the population. we have a lot of nerve frankly criticizing other countries for the way they run their

democracies from questionable voter id regulations to shorten to early voting time slots to gerrymandering rejoicing congressional district lines to favor certain party laws affecting voters' rights are passed left and right and vary state by state you have an error this video shows how easy it is to attempt to steal attorney general eric holder's vote when an idea is not required actually forgot my id. yet places that do ask for a government issued photo id can affect over ten percent of americans that simply don't have one there is an attempt to prevent large numbers of people from actually exercising the ballot election monitors usually serve the purpose of keeping track of and discrepancies and while the us likes to keep a close eye on the way elections are handled abroad we have the right to monitor other people's elections of course and if they don't do it they're clearly they're cheating that's not democracy it's rigged it's

a dictatorship what the hell the need for monitors at home is vastly undermined when you're looking at an election where the votes are counted in public are humans that's the kind of election that it's possible to observe there really is virtually no opportunity for international observation but the same goes for domestic observers even the carter center which grows a rod and does the great work of monitoring elections abroad refuses to monitor u.s. elections on the grounds it don't meet the basic standards of integrity when election ideals are not met elsewhere criticism runs rampant elections in venezuela. elections in iran elections in russia. the press will go to town on any sign that the outcome was fixed you know regardless of whether the evidence is sound though just go crazy and while nit picking abroad is all the rage the elephant in the room remains unnoticed at home i promise you that the evidence that they use to scream

and yell about the outcome in those countries is usually a whole lot weaker than the evidence of election theft in this country the good news not all of the hypocrisy goes unnoticed for policymakers and to a great extent our media and trickle down to the american people have literally the literally think that the rest of the world is stupid that they don't see it that everybody naturally has to admit you know admire us that we're great and it's not the case well obvious flaws are met with a deaf ear here in and year out a flawed election process continues to be the first vote cast in the us and it's their future can our party be york. whoever's voted into the white house will in a very inadvertently affect the country's laces with the rest of the world russia included and there's a widespread feeling around the globe that when it comes to international relations then incumbent of president obama is much safer better than the somewhat hawkish

romney let's not get more on that from our pisco not joining us live so you've got is that barack obama stays in power should we expect his foreign policy calls to continue. well things are definitely watch more career when it comes to barack obama the birds are going to if mr obama does manage to win a second term in office then we should expect a continuation of the current foreign policies but there are many problems relations with russia there's a very complicated relationship with and back in the middle east the crisis in your reign in. syria and wished. and forget about issues like security in afghanistan with the rising number of deaths among u.s. troops as washington is still fighting boy out of the country in a couple of years so whoever becomes the next president of the united states will definitely have his hands full talk about barack obama then certainly if he manages

to win the second term of office the best time for him it will be much more difficult to him for a special national community and for more and this is a report i prepared earlier. i've come here to cairo to seek a new beginning between the united states and muslims around the world charismatic promising a new barack obama swept into office in the wake of the yes we can euphoria invoiced greed aspirations which even got him the two thousand and nine nobel peace prize we knew that change had come to egypt today the libyan people are writing a new chapter. obama personally supported the arab spring but as soon as all governments fell a new powers emerged the murder of u.s. diplomats in libya and white spread anti american protests all over the muslim world didn't exactly show the kind of gratitude washington expected that's far as we are concerned and i'm speaking about. the average person on the street including

many arab nationalists now some rights left us and upon the people of different backgrounds we still view obama as a representative of. us imperialism. with a sudden backlash in the middle east and back in washington the far east has become yet another source of irritation night i'm announcing the creation of a trade enforcement unit that will be charged with investigating unfair trading practices in countries like china. president obama has been increasingly tough with china and it's not only about enforcement units and lawsuits washington has also been increasing its news or your presence in the pacific we absolutely have to make more progress and that's where we're going to keep on pressing but when it comes to the second largest economy in the world and a state which owns a major part of u.s. debt try to forget about those campaign rhetoric for a moment regardless what romney said or brok obama said here then i think they will

adopt this same policy that is engagement and cooperation with china from. president obama has also been trying to make progress with another member of the u.n. security council russia by meenie has been viewed as the engine behind the reset of relations with moscow but it's still unclear if it actually worked well long lasting stumbling blocks like washington's plans for an engineer sound defense system in europe are still very much on the table what mr bomber could do he has done i mean he said the revolution should have. brought them in so i don't think he could do it to her promise will not let him too much to do perhaps the expectations for mr obama were to point from the start but if he does manage to win a second term in office it's clear the yes we can your theory is gone and this time the world isn't a scheme to believe in his promises is going off or to moscow. stay with

r.t. for live coverage of the u.s. presidential election plus a plenty of expert opinion and analysis on our and online. of the six american votes for its next president. who will take the wheel as the u.s. drives into the. get the news the mainstream missings without a close election. the u.s. election up close. and r.t. dot com. a series of deadly blasts have had syria killing mall than sixty people want to expose in targeting syrian troops took place in a flashpoint hama province where as other tags roll through the capital damascus claiming civilian lives artie's middle east correspondent policia has more details three major attacks have taken place across syria on monday in the first a suicide

car bomb that killed more than fifty syrian soldiers as well as pro-government gunmen now it happened in the central syrian province of hama and according to reports the attack was carried out by an al qaida inspired islamic militant group states also say that only two people were killed but we have no way of independently verifying this information there are suggestions that at least one ton of explosives was used in the attack in a separate incident in the capital city of damascus a blast there has killed several people and injured many more among them children it is thought that the cause of that attack was a car bomb and then also on monday eight bus attack also in damascus so five people killed three of them children as well as a woman there many bats in which there were traveling was hit by a mortar shell and that that caused this explosion now we do not know who is behind these attacks but certainly in the past rebel groups have claimed responsibility for similar such attacks what we have seen as monday

a bloody day of violence in syria where the situation on the ground is intensifying . london based journalist and writer neil clark says the latest attacks the war join the many previous ones that have been ignored by key international players the trouble is being caused by groups have been outside forces with weapons arms coming in from outside these are terrorist attacks by any objective assessment but of course they're not being condemned as such by the question how is the hypocrisy gray area just imagining things sort of bomb attacks were going off in reality charlie rarely if you were in tel aviv in israel that we have heard him hey you get your recruits within seconds coming out condemning them for not doing this we had a bomb outside a nursery school a few weeks ago we had the appalling murder this weekend of a famous syrian actor who was killed he only crime was of course supporting the government in syria. and so we've got terrorist attacks taking place in a daily basis and not by the west and i think we all know why. later in the program

a slamming on the brakes in breeds as workers across the border right against austerity want the government votes on new cuts to satisfy international lenders that's still to come or not. the british prime minister has embarked on a low key arms torch to the middle east but as artie's party boyko explains both the needs are being chased and david cameron sales pages are missing more than a few eyebrows. in the past the british prime minister has spoken about how britain's interests line up holding the country's values but it was all interests and no talk of values this morning when david cameron touched down in dubai he's going to be trying to sell over one hundred u.k. tyson fighter jets to the leaders of the united arab emirates and saudi arabia that's despite concerns about person pedaling fighter jets to regimes with

questionable human rights records david cameron says he's happy to discuss human rights as well as lucrative bronze contracts with countries that he calls old partners but it looks like talk about human rights is familiar rhetoric to justify a long standing tradition of toys to less than squeaky clean gulf states sandhurst military academy behind me last year i accepted a three million pound donation from the kingdom of bahrain inside these gates sandhurst offices train in the new bahrain sports hall even though the bahraini government launched a brutal crackdown against pro-democracy protesters last yeah scientist even said the bahraini government and flushing letter thanking them for their generosity the three million pound gift was hardly a break with tradition but it's part of a long standing relationship of reciprocal favors between the bahraini monarchy and

strains within the british establishment so it looks like talk of british values is good p.r. when it comes to defending trade links and good relations with countries whose human rights records some would call into question. r t s. george eaton that observes from the new statesman political magazine things gulf countries might turn out to be blinded by the fool's gold london's offering. consigning. so are these weapons to be used against against their own people as there as they have been of course in bahrain parents by a few many really good speech to the. national assembly back in two thousand and eleven at the arab spring was a rousing making a point. in the possibility of governments chosen to very good interests. vinings. rights. freedom of speech and he argued that was

a false choice because in the long run our interests lie in amazing all values but it's. a real shift away from violence rhetoric today downing street major token reference to encouraging and this growing economic reform but it's really the existence on the real i mean australasia ship with saudi arabia. so cool instability which unfortunately for the people who started arabia means lack of freedom and autocracy. and more news of from london that is lined up for you on our website at our team dot com as hundreds of members of the high commitment anonymous have served a teacher the new kids government marketing guy fawkes day with protests in the country's capital. plus the elsewhere close call for iran has now in the israeli documentary revealed tel aviv was all said we were

planning a strike on iran back in twenty ten learn more and on t.v. dot com. the. greeks continue their week of strikes as they paid more painful measures will be forced upon them by the government all public services will be closed on choose day and most public transport will grind to a halt. to all the reports from athens. these people are journalists who've walked out in anger and what they see is unfair meshes that are going to be imposed by the somali risk government on the greek people and older to make the thirteen point five billion euros worth of savings that's being demanded of crease by its

three main credit is the so-called troika those thirteen point five billion worth of cuts have been demanded in order that greece receives its next round of bailout money they say that they cut sort of being imposed on them by the government that are going to be imposed on them by the government that's up for a vote in the parliament on wednesday that they're totally unacceptable now on tuesday and on wednesday these journalists will be joined by people from all across greece as a general strike takes place for forty eight hours in the parliament the opposition has said that they want to see new elections in greece so unhappy are they with some odd assist policies and they all say said that why couldn't the prime minister renegotiate the. thirteen point five billion worth of cuts that's been demanded of him but he said the reason he couldn't do that is because it wasn't negotiable this is being dictated to greece and that's prompted the opposition to call for the people of the country to rise up peacefully over the coming days and take back

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